Artikel: William Louis Stern (1926–2021)
IAWA journal. 2022 Mar. 09, v. 43, no. 1-2
2022
Abstract: William Louis (Bill) Stern passed away on 1 November 2021 at the age of 95. Bill had a long and ...
| Abstract | William Louis (Bill) Stern passed away on 1 November 2021 at the age of 95. Bill had a long and illustrious career as a botanist. He was a life member of IAWA. From 1951 to around 1982 his focus was on wood anatomy and then his attentions moved on to orchids, culminating in volume 10 of the Anatomy of the Monocotyledons: Orchidaceae in 2014. Bill’s last major wood publication was the incredibly useful Index Xylariorum III (IX3) in 1988, of which he had published a first version in 1957. There’s a photo in IAWA Bulletin 9(4): 394 of him receiving the first printed copy of IX3 from Pieter Baas in Madison in October 1988. Peter first met Bill at Kew and inherited the task of compiling the next version IX4, quickly realising just how big a task this was, especially since Bill hadn’t had the benefits of email! The latest iteration of IX4 can be found on both the IAWA and GTTN websites. Thirty-three years since IX3 younger wood anatomists may not realise just how influential Bill has been in the wood science world. After spending 1944–1946 in the US Naval Reserve he went to Rutgers University where he gained his BS in 1950 and then the University of Illinois for his MS in 1951 and PhD in botany 1954. From 1953 to 1960 he was instructor and curator and then professor of wood anatomy at Yale University School of Forestry and then moved to the Division of Woods in the Department of Botany at the Smithsonian Institution until 1967 when he became Professor of Botany at the University of Maryland until 1979. The Yale wood collection is now at the USDA Forest Service Forest Products Lab in Madison under the acronym SJRw, in honour of its founder Samuel J. Record. |
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| Schlagwörter | Internet ; Orchidaceae ; botanists ; e-mail ; forestry ; teachers ; wood ; wood anatomy ; Illinois ; Maryland |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Erscheinungsverlauf | 2022-0309 |
| Umfang | p. 213-215. |
| Erscheinungsort | Brill |
| Dokumenttyp | Artikel |
| ZDB-ID | 2251408-9 |
| ISSN | 2294-1932 ; 0928-1541 |
| ISSN (online) | 2294-1932 |
| ISSN | 0928-1541 |
| DOI | 10.1163/22941932-00002198 |
| Datenquelle | NAL Katalog (AGRICOLA) |
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